Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
DEATH In THE WATER.
Is the Element We Drink Decimating
the PeOples
How a Universal Menace to Health
May be DiSarmed.

A few years ago the people in a certain
section in one of the leading cities of the
state were Frustrated with a malignant
disease, and upon investigation it was
found that only those who used water
from famous old we'll were the victims.
Professor S. A. baltimore, analyst of
the New York State Board of Health, up
on anslyzing water from this well, found
it more deadly than the city sewagel.
The filling up of the old well stopped
the ravages of the disease
Not long since the writer noticed while
some men were making an excavation for
"a large building, stratum of dark color
ed earth running from near the surface
to hard pan. There it took another
course toward well near at hand. The
water from this we'll had for years been
tainted with the DRAWINGS from receiv-
ing vault, the percolations of which had
discolored the earth!
Terrible!
every village and city where we'll water is
:Ised, and though the filtering which the
fluids receive in passing through the earth
II ay give tn m a c,ear appearance, yet the
)is on and disease remains, though the
water may look never so clear.
1t is still worse with the farmer, for
the drainage from the barn yaer and the
Stops from the kitchen eventually find
their way into the family well.
The same condition of things exists In
our large cities, whose water supplies are
.ivers fed by little streams that carry
''water" is eventually drunk by rich and
poor alike with great evil.
Some cautious people resort to the fl
ter for purifying this water, but even the
dlter does not remove this poison, for
pass through this filter and become clear,
yet the poison disguised is there.
They who use filters know that they
must bs renewed at regular periods, for
even though they do not take out all the
impurity, they soon become foul.
Now in like manner the human kidneys
act as filter for the blood, and if they
are filled up with impurities and become
foul, like the filter, all the blood in the
system coursing through them becomes
bad, for it is now conceded fact that
the kidneys are the chief means whereby
the blood is purified. These organs are
filled with thousands of hair-lihe tubes
which drain the impurities from the
blood, as the sewer pipes drain impurl
ties from our houses.
If sewer pipe breaks under the house,
| the sewage escapes into the earth and
fills the house with poisonous gas; so If
any of the thousand and one little hair
like sewer tubes of the kidneys break
down, the entire body is affected by this
| awful poison.
It is a scientific fact that the kidneys
have few nerves of sensation; and, conse-
| 9uently, disease may exist in these Or
gans for long time and not be suspect
| ed by the individual. It is impossible to
! filter or take the death out of the
blood when the least arrangement exists
| in these organs, and if the blood is not
| filtered then the uric acid, or kidney poi
son, removable only by Warmers safe
cure, accumulates in the system and at
tacks any organ, producing nine out of
ten ailments, just as sewer gas and bad
drainage produce so many fatal disorders
Kidney disease may be known to exist
if there is any marked departure from Or
binary health without apparent known
cause, and it should be understood by all
that the greatest peril exists, and is in
tensifed, if there is the least neglect to
treat it promptly with that great specific,
Warmers safe cure, a remedy that has re-
ceived tho highest recognition by scien.
tifc men who have thoroughly in
yestigated the character of kidney de-
engagements.
They may not tell US that the cause OF
SO many diseases in this organ IS the i'm
pure wator Or any other one thing, but
this poisonous water with its impurities
coursing constantly through these delicate
organs undoubtedly does produce much OF
the decay and disease which eventually
terminate in the fatal Bright's disease
for this disease, alike among the drink
ing men, prohibitionists, the tobacco
slave, the laborer, the merchant and the
tramp, works terrible devastation every
year.
1t is we'll known that the liver which is
so easily thrown ''out of gear" as they
say, very readily disturbs the action OF
| the Kidneys. That organ when derange ed
immediately announces the fact by salloN
| SKIN, constipated bowels, coated tongue
and headaches, but the kidney when dis
eased, struggles on for long time, and
the fact of its disease can only be discov-
cred by the aid of the microscope or by
| the physician who is skillful enough to
trace the most indirect effects in the sys'
fem to the arrangement of these organs
es the prime cause.
The pubic is learning much on this
subject and when it comes to understand
that the kidneys are the real health regu-
iators, as they are the real blood purifiers
OF the system, they viii escape an infinite
amount of unnecessary suffering, and add
length of days and Happiness to their lot
A Cat Turns Gray from Grief.
| There is, indeed, a strange story told
US by Charley Johnson, of Griffin, Ga, il
regard to cat which is now in his pos
session. "As I was moving from the
country to the city I started from my
farm with a jet black kitten tied in a sack
! in nv buggy. On nv way stODDed at Mr.